C'mon, Lesh. There's nothing dishonest in what I'm asking. I'm trying to sort out whether you've actually put any thought into this, or whether it's just an article of faith. My experience with minimum wage advocates is that it's usually the latter. They kinda-sorta claim that minimum wage laws have a positive effect, yet back off from proposing any meaningful raises.
But minimum wage laws have traditionally been ridiculously low anyway. Because of that, any effects, positive or negative, have been negligible. So negligible that there's no solid evidence one way or another. So why not test your theory? If minimum wage has a net positive effect at $15/hr, do you think it would have a net positive effect at $25/hr? $50/hr? What's the story?
What a bunch of disingenuous bullshit.
You're trying to "appeal to reason" after and while making ridiculous unsupported claims and statements like "why not raise it to $200/hr?"
Get bent.
I don't get why this pisses you off so much. I'm just trying to understand your reasoning on the issue. Is there any? Is there any reason why you wouldn't want to raise it to $200/hr?
And then you admit that minimum wages have always been too low (and somehow that is a reason for NOT raising them)?????
You're the one who seems to think there's a reason for not raising them "too much". But you're afraid to discuss the reason. Why?